Comments on: More holes than a colander

By: Pierre Farrugia

Pierre Farrugia — Tue, 19 May 2009 18:17:39 +0000

Up to a few months ago you had written that you didn’t give a hoot about EP elections.

But of course now that the heat is on you just can’t resist. Very typical.

Nevertheless, very entertaining blog! Thanks.

[Daphne – Yes, it’s impossible to resist when I see the bare-assed cheek of those opportunists.]

By: eros

eros — Tue, 19 May 2009 15:24:26 +0000

MM’s contradictions in bringing up political discrimination in government job awards, when she is herself the living proof of how two Nationalist governments kept her as chairman of Sea Malta, in spite of her clear Labour leanings, are to be expected from a person who claims to have voted for Malta to join the EU and, a few weeks later, voted for a Labour Party which had sworn to withdraw Malta’s application. The mind boggles indeed!

By: tony pace

tony pace — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:23:53 +0000

In reply to Stanley Cassar Darien. Yes Daphne, exactly that. All they expect is a gentle ride with all the 'gravy' which goes with it. (And Marlene Pullicino is another one to add to the list of champagne socialists.)

By: J Busuttil

J Busuttil — Tue, 19 May 2009 08:34:56 +0000

Political discrimination: even under Sant’s administration hundreds of Nationalists were given a political transfer. And under the present Labour pack it will be like the Mintoff era.

By: Graham Crocker

Graham Crocker — Tue, 19 May 2009 06:37:16 +0000

I know where am I going to apply for a job this summer: OneTV and Maltastar, so I can talk about political discrimination and not the fact that I haven’t studied communications.

But, ironically enough, the friends I know who work or have worked with OneTV are all Labour or come from Labour families.

By: Stanley Cassar Darien

Stanley Cassar Darien — Mon, 18 May 2009 23:18:44 +0000

Is it pick on Marlene week?

[Daphne – You know how it is with politics: you raise your profile, give interviews, and wait for the fall-out. What did she expect? To go into politics and get no flak?]

By: tony pace

tony pace — Mon, 18 May 2009 21:26:16 +0000

In reply to tony pace. It is .....and he did! Now, as with everything else, with a lot of regret.

By: tony pace

tony pace — Mon, 18 May 2009 20:22:11 +0000

As my friend and hers, N, would say, she needed someone to sit on her, and you did it good and proper D, as always in your inimitable style.

[Daphne – I hope this N isn’t the one I think it is, or he might have done some sitting himself.]

By: maryanne

maryanne — Mon, 18 May 2009 16:50:23 +0000

Marlene Mizzi won’t enter politics at the local national level. I had commented once how she stood out like a sore thumb in that rally or whatever it was at Birgu. As you say, she’d rather be travelling to Brussels with all the perks u mela mal-hamalli.

If Mrs Mizzi wishes we can draw a long list of Labour sympathisers who kept their jobs/posts under the PN.

There is nothing more to comment. You are really knocking Mrs Mizzi down with your excellent arguments. It’s a knock-out every time.

[Daphne – It is not my wish to knock her down. But it makes me see red when somebody who was a political appointee of the Labour government, and who retained her chairmanship under two Nationalist governments, has the bloody nerve to rant on about political discrimination. So maybe she wasn’t made chairman of Sea Malta because she was Labour and a token woman. Maybe it was her credentials. If so, then why weren’t all the other Valletta shopkeepers in the running? Unbelievable.]